Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BLUFF

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Definitions of BLUFF

1. An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one's position in order to intimidate; braggadocio.
2. One who bluffs; a bluffer.
3. To take advantage by bluffing.
4. A high, steep bank, for example by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.
5. Having a broad, flattened front.
6. Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front.
7. Surly; churlish; gruff; rough.
8. Roughly frank and hearty in one's manners.
9. To fluff, puff or swell up.
10. (poker) An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does.
11. (US, dated) The card game poker.
12. (slang, dated) An excuse.
13. (poker) To make a bluff; to give the impression that one's hand is stronger than it is.
14. (by analogy) To frighten or deter with a false show of strength or confidence; to give a false impression of strength or temerity in order to intimidate and gain some advantage.
15. (Manglish, Singlish) To give false information intentionally; to lie; to deceive
16. (Canadian Prairies) A small wood or stand of trees, typically poplar or willow.
17. A town in New Zealand, the southernmost in the South Island, and seaport for the Southland region.

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Examples of Using BLUFF in a Sentence

• The history of Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort (castra) of Mamucium or Mancunium, established in about AD 79 on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell.
• This might be done, for example, when the first player believes that an opponent has an inferior hand and will not call a direct bet, but that they may attempt to bluff, allowing the first player to win more money than they would by betting straightforwardly.
• A bet for value is in contrast to a bluff or a protection bet (though some bets may have a combination of these motives).
• In poker, a steal is a type of a bluff, a raise during the first betting round made with an inferior hand and meant to make other players fold superior hands because of shown strength.
• It is said that "aggression has its own value", meaning that often aggressive plays can make money with weak hands because of bluff value.
• January 12 – In North America, ships from Fort Maurepas arrive at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff, to build Fort Louis de la Mobile (future Mobile, Alabama), to become the capital of French Louisiana.
• The city of Fort Worth was established in 1849 as an army outpost on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River.
• The Baton Rouge area owes its historical importance to its strategic site upon the Istrouma Bluff, the first natural bluff upriver from the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico.
• The city is dominated by the monumental domed Missouri State Capitol, which rises from a bluff overlooking the nearby Missouri River to the north; Lewis and Clark with their Corps of Discovery passed the bluff here on their historic expedition upriver in 1804, eventually journeying westward to the Pacific Northwest region and the Pacific Ocean, before Europeans or Americans established any settlement there.
• By extension, the phrase "calling somebody's bluff" is often used outside the context of poker to describe situations where one person demands that another proves a claim, or proves that they are not being deceptive.
• The first was Hewett's Bluff (later renamed Bear Pen, then Cerro Gordo), then Pittman's Ferry, then Westville, and finally Bonifay.
• In the first days of Baldwin County, the town of McIntosh Bluff on the Tombigbee River was the county seat.
• A rock shelter (also rockhouse, crepuscular cave, bluff shelter, or abri) is a shallow cave-like opening at the base of a bluff or cliff.
• On February 12, 1733, General James Oglethorpe and settlers from the ship Anne landed at Yamacraw Bluff and were greeted by Tomochichi, the Yamacraws, and Indian traders John and Mary Musgrove.
• At the mouth of the Trempealeau River at its confluence with the Mississippi River, they found a bluff surrounded by water and called it La Montagne qui trempe à l’eau ("mountain steeped in water").
• Native American were the first to live in what became Pierce County, as evidenced in the burial mounds near Diamond Bluff.
• Although it is the state's busiest river, its run within the county is tranquil, with high bluff escarpments and sandy islands.
• Archaeological evidence suggests a significant population of mound building Native Americans in the county, with several mounds located near the Tennessee River at Lady's Bluff.
• Early European traders in the Carolinas settled along the Pee Dee River from the 17th century, including in an isolated area called Sandy Bluff.
• Baker County was named for Edward Dickinson Baker, a senator from Oregon who was killed at Ball's Bluff, a battle of the Civil War in Virginia in 1861.
• Scotts Bluff was named for Hiram Scott, a Rocky Mountain Fur Company trapper who died nearby around 1828.
• The arrival of increasing numbers of settlers led to the partitioning of the county in 1888: the eastern third became Deuel County; the middle third became present-day Cheyenne County; and the western third became Kimball, Scotts Bluff, and Banner Counties.
• It consists of all of the cities of Neelyville, Qulin, and Poplar Bluff; all of the census-designated place of Harviell; and the unincorporated communities of Angus, Batesville, Belcher, Booser, Broseley, Fagus, Hubbel, Kremlin, Loma Linda, Nyssa, Oglesville, Platanus, Resnik, Roxie, Taft, and Vastus.
• They were destroyed at a settlement known as Lyon's Bluff by a rare alliance between the Choctaw and Chickasaw, who were traditional rivals.
• In 1873, a group of three men organized Harper County, designating the then fictitious city of "Bluff City" as the county seat.

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